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endangered species

Trump Admin regulatory changes would end ESA landgrabs

November 7, 2020 1

In 2011, FWS designated over 1,500 acres of land as critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog. Despite this designation, the dusky gopher frog had not lived on the land since at least 1965 and the land was currently uninhabitable…

Domestic Energy

Is California’s love affair with renewable energy behind the rolling blackouts?

August 26, 2020 0

The blame game and the debate about how exactly to cope with reliability in a heavily renewable power grid highlight the fact that meeting clean energy goals and reducing emissions should be made only after careful planning on how to…

COVID-19

Mayor of Eagar, Arizona: We are in the midst of the nation’s first political pandemic

July 8, 2020 0

As grim as Covid19 is portrayed under the most drastic scenario, I dare say that we are facing a much more serious pandemic here in America. We are currently in the midst of the nation’s first political pandemic. Never before…

Failed Federal Policy

NEPA has made lawyers rich but has done nothing to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure

February 1, 2020 1

The NEPA process, intended to create a better forum to resolve disputes, so projects could be built more responsibly, has instead become a powerful tool to delay/block projects from getting started at all. It is used regularly to delay/block road…

Regulations

National Environmental Policy Act reforms will advance critical infrastructure projects

January 10, 2020 0

NEPA updates includes codifying aspects of President Trump’s One Federal Decision policy, which improves coordination and communication between Federal agencies and sets a two-year average goal for completion of environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects. Highlights excerpted from the post on…

Progressive Special Interests

Municipal “growth-management plans” and their crushing fiscal and social costs

November 1, 2019 0

Median home prices in growth-managed regions are typically two to four times more than those in unmanaged areas. Growth restrictions also dramatically increase home price volatility, making homeownership a riskier investment. Growth management slows regional growth, exacerbates income inequality, and…

Bureaucrats run-amok

The Trump administration’s successful war against bureaucratic bullies

October 18, 2019 0

All of these cases share a common feature: They arose from unelected bureaucrats making completely selective decisions about how a law should be interpreted and enforced, without the oversight or input of Congress or the public. Rachel Bovard USA Today…

Government run amok

GOOD RIDDANCE: Now-defunct WOTUS asserted federal power over “virtually all water”

October 8, 2019 0

That battle landed in numerous courts in 2015 when the Obama Administration issued a new interpretation of WOTUS. They said the new rule gave EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers “broader authority over the nation’s waterways.” But it wasn’t…

endangered species

Federal overreach on private property puts endangered species at greater risk

September 9, 2019 0

The reason for the law’s mixed results is clear: It makes rare species a significant liability for landowners, rather than an asset. Consequently, landowners may preemptively destroy habitat to deter endangered species from moving in. They may also refuse to…

Bureau of Land Management

Following years of controversy and corruption, Interior Department massively expands Ethics Program

August 17, 2019 3

"...Investigations performed by the Department’s Inspector General over the years have highlighted a culture at the Department of the Interior that did not embrace necessary ethical standards, which erodes the public’s faith in our work...”  As posted on the Department…

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